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John Updike A John updike a Continue The Bad Sex Award, awarded by the prestigious Literary Review, is awarded, so to speak, the worst attitude to sex in literature. But don't think that a magazine as phlegmatic and English as it will be dedicated to fustigate unknown or amateur authors, no, its lists of finalists are usually composed of great authors loaded with important prizes. This year, someone who makes 20 in his career, found phrases of misunderstanding ... Read the full post Other article about this author's Mystery how the offspring will behave with John Updike (Reading, Pennsylvania, 1932 - Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 2009), but the thing is not to bet on your favor. If he were alive, it is more than likely that many will try to show his white rhino head on its walls and walls. That didn't happen, though, in later years of life, vede on it had already opened. Political correctness accused him of almost everything, deciding to bring every new installment of it before destroying it because he is still respected both for his prestige and his competitive teson. Novels such as The Beauty of the Lilies (1996), Gertrude and Claudio (2000) or collections of short stories such as What's Left to Live (1994) proved to be worthy of such respect. We mean one of the golden ages of the Himalayan peaks of the American novel of the 20th century with Norman Mailer, Philip Roth or Sol Bellow. Part of the 1960s and 1970s belongs to him, considering that, in addition to those fellow travelers, Updike agreed with John Chiwer, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison or Joyce Carol Oates. He was able to create among these black holes and supernovae the territory of his own, American white middle class, who controlled alcohol better than adultery, with a red button of birth control pills on the nightstand. Updike, who began to want to be a graphic artist, struggled and became what he thought needed the American narrative of his time: a writer as big as he was popular. Something like Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley or TV. He drew with the clear, architectural and meticulous stroke of neighborhoods, living houses, rooms, toilets and bedrooms, divorces, disputes and truces, romance, sex and disloyal to his fellow citizens in a style as ruthless as it is beautiful. He nailed your scalpel with a clean cut that freed you from epic and final ordinances. His books are narcissistic, and past time pushes his perfectionism, too often, into a snob, but his reading continues to reveal something huge. They seem to be books written by a god who understands without judgment or intervention. It makes us look like ordinary creatures, but not stupid or banal, works death, which we try to avoid by enshrining ourselves in the eternity of the perfect moment at a cost - children, ruin, death - anything. All this in the gatopardo in the rescue editions of Marry Me, a novel published in 1977 that in Spain will publish defunc publishing house Noguer, with the same translator, but another translation. In it, Updike returns to his favorite territory: the marital problems of the American middle class, following his bestseller, Couples (1968), and in the midst of his foreshadowing series with the character harry Rabbit Angstrom (the tetralogy and posthumous closing book of Harry, which will make Updike continue to read and here there are stakes). The action takes place in 1962 in Greenwood, on the outskirts of Connecticut. Adult American Dream: beaches, dinners, children, cocktails at sunset, war games floors, own and other bedrooms. Jerry and Sally start an extramarital relationship that they want them led to their divorce and a new wedding. They do not know that their respective partners also have their own affairs. In five chapters, John Updike distributes gameplay. The cards are marked and vary in value depending on the conversations, symbols, tempo given in the five parts in which the novel is divided. The guilt arising from the obvious possibility of choice, the religious temple that adultery tempts him to destroy, to erect a new, already pagan, to the greatest glory without remaining dead in life. All this in this novel, in the style always, that third person who is, but the first con artist, and the impulsiveness of the person, a deep, eschatological view, as cruel as this compassion: he understands, forgives and condemns at the same time. In its trajectory, marry me skill, impeccable, yes, that works like a clock, but without capital breath. But this is nothing demerate in the case of Updike, because a little of it is almost too much for many others. And besides, like almost all of his books, whether it's novels or stories, there are some scenes that you end up taking with you. Like, for example, the one where Jerry and Sally, who lived an idyllic day on a plane ride from the beaches, a few hours that confirmed their decision to break their marriages and be together, arrive at the airport to return home and the storm makes foreseen that the return flight will be delayed. This will mean that the domestic reality, the dog until then obedient and trained will bite their hand. Bubble adultery fantasy bursts through the delayed plane. Finally, the wizard rescues them to condemn them: they will fly in time, each other's alibi will work and the match ball is saved. But, nevertheless, the light has changed and you have seen, you have seen, and the same is no longer usual. Yours, the last one now Dure, the term. Como en esas miradas de algunas peleculas de antonioni que lo dicen todo y es amargo y finale. Reportaje:Икер Сейсдедос Картахена 31-01-2009 - 23:00 UTCJunot Диас у ООН homenaje Updike ан-ла-сегунда jornada дель Хай-де-КартахенаАдис ООН колосо-де-лас-летрас estadounidensesJusto Наварро 27-01-2009 - 23:00 UTCAdi's ООН колосо-де-лас-летрас estadounidensEduardo Лаго 27-01-2009 - 23:00 UTCAdi's ООН колосо-де-лас-летрас estadounidensesДжосе Мария Guelbenzu 27-01-2009 - 23:00 UTCReportaje:Ади оон колосо-де-лас-летрас estadounidensesБарбарара Селис Нуэва-йорк 27-01-2009 - 23:00 UTCJohn Updike, cronista y azote de las clases medias, muere a los 76 a'os de un c'ncer de pulm'n - El personaje de Conejo Angstrom es su gran creaci'n literariarevista:Eduardo Lago 29-06-2007 - 09:08 UTCEL LIBRO DE LA SEMANARodrigo Фресон 08-06-2007 - 22:00 UTCEntrevista:Джон Апдайк ЭскриторЛе Монд 07-01-2007 - 23:00 UTCPANORAMAЛеонардо Валенсия/Андрес Нойман 29-09-2006 - 22:00 UTCTribuna:LA CULTURA, СИНКО АНЬОС ДЕСПУС ДЕЛ 11-Седуардо Лаго 08-09-2006 - 22:00 UTCElsa Фернандес-Сантос Мадрид (ru) 16-12-2005 - 23:00 UTCEntrevista:Джон Апдайк ЭскриторВолкер Хаге/Дер Шпигель 02-01-2003 - 14:37 UTCКритика : Javier Aparicio Maideu 19-07-2002 - 22:00 UTCOPINI'N DEL LECTORJordi Llovet Barcelona (en) 25-05-2001 - 22:00 UTCMiguel Garcia Posada 05-01-1996 - 23:00 UTC American Writer, poet, writer, art critic and literary critic John UpdikeUpdike in 1989BornJohn Hoyer Updike (1932-03-18)18 March 1932Read, Pennsylvania, USADiedJanuary 27, 2009 (2009-01-27) (age 76)Danvers, Massachusetts, Massachusetts United StatesOccupationNovelist, shorty writer, poet, literary critic, artistGenreLiterary realismThe workRabbit Angstrom novelsGenry Bech stories Witch from EastwickSignature John Updike voice from the program BBC Front Row, October 31, 2008. John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 -January 27, 2009) was an American writer, poet, screenwriter, art historian, and literary critic. One of four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the other are Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike has published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen collections of short, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books throughout his career. Hundreds of his short stories, reviews and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since 1954. He also wrote regularly for The New York Review of Books. His most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Rich; Rabbit on Vacation; and The Rabbit's Tale remembered), which chronicles the life of middle-class 1er Harry Rabbit Angstrom for several decades, from young adulthood to death. Rabbit is rich (1982) on vacation (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Describing his theme as an American small town, Protestant middle class, Updike was recognized for his meticulous craftsmanship, his unique prose style, and his prolific output - he wrote an average book a year. Updike inhabited his fiction with characters who often experience personal turmoil and must respond to crises related to religion, family responsibilities and adultery. His fiction is distinguished by attention to the cares, passions and sufferings of the average American, an emphasis on Christian theology and a concern for sexuality and sensual detail. His work attracted considerable attention and praise, and he is widely regarded as one of the great American writers of his time. Updike's high-profile prosaic style is distinguished by a rich, unusual, sometimes secret dictionary, which is conveyed through the eyes of a crooked, intelligent author's voice, who extravagantly describes the physical world, while remaining directly in a realistic tradition. He described his style as an attempt to give the worldly because of it its beautiful. Early living and education Boyhood at home in Shillington Updike was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, the only child of Linda Grace (nee Hoyer) and Wesley Russell Updike, and grew up in the nearby small town of Shillington. The family later moved to the unincorporated village of Plowville.
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